Judy has a tour de force performance from Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland in the last year of her life.
Garland had no money, no home and in a custody battle with her ex husband. She managed to get a gig at the Talk of the Town club in London, as she was still celebrated in Britain.
However Garland was a wreck. Middle aged but looking older, addicted to booze and drugs.
There are flashbacks to the young Judy Garland on the set of The Wizard of Oz where movie mogul Louis B Mayer coerces her to perform by any mean even by plying her with pills.
Director Rupert Goold delivers a meat and potatoes bio pic. It is all by the numbers and low key. Only a scene where Garland is taken for breakfast by two gay men stands out apart from Zellweger's acting.
Garland had no money, no home and in a custody battle with her ex husband. She managed to get a gig at the Talk of the Town club in London, as she was still celebrated in Britain.
However Garland was a wreck. Middle aged but looking older, addicted to booze and drugs.
There are flashbacks to the young Judy Garland on the set of The Wizard of Oz where movie mogul Louis B Mayer coerces her to perform by any mean even by plying her with pills.
Director Rupert Goold delivers a meat and potatoes bio pic. It is all by the numbers and low key. Only a scene where Garland is taken for breakfast by two gay men stands out apart from Zellweger's acting.